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Comment And I thought geese were a problem! (Score 1) 65

by momdude on Friday February 19, 2010 @05:04PM (#31204088) Attached to: MIT's Flyfire To Paint Images In the Sky Using Micro-Helicopters

As a private pilot, I look forward to the day when someone plows through a cloud of these things at 125 knots and tests just how many of them it takes to bring down a Cessna - or a 747.

Man Uses Drake Equation To Explain Girlfriend Woes 538

Posted by samzenpus on Wednesday January 13, 2010 @07:57PM from the less-math-more-social-science dept.

artemis67 writes "A man studying in London has taken a mathematical equation that predicts the possibility of alien life in the universe to explain why he can't find a girlfriend. Peter Backus, a native of Seattle and PhD candidate and Teaching Fellow in the Department of Economics at the University of Warwick, near London, in his paper, 'Why I don't have a girlfriend: An application of the Drake Equation to love in the UK,' used math to estimate the number of potential girlfriends in the UK. In describing the paper on the university Web site he wrote 'the results are not encouraging. The probability of finding love in the UK is only about 100 times better than the probability of finding intelligent life in our galaxy.'"

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